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Title: Hightower strives to be the best Post by: pmull on October 08, 2011, 07:40:34 AM This is a very good story on Dont'a Hightower. It is mostly about his family and high school career. He is having a good year and looks like he is 100% recovered from his ACL injury. He is a special player and seems to have the respect of the Tide coaches and players.
Quote In his only season as Hightower's coach, Thomas was taken aback not only by his ability, but his character as well. "When your star player is on task and on target, it's a lot easier to get everyone else to be on task and on target," Thomas said. "And Dont'a did everything we asked and more." As for his exploits on the field, those were of the sort Thomas hadn't seen before or since. Hightower was primarily a linebacker under Thomas, but was occasionally used to spark the offense. According to Thomas, he touched the ball 77 times as a senior - either as a rusher, receiver or return man - and scored 19 touchdowns on those 77 touches. But it was at linebacker where Thomas knew he had something even more special. "He's the only guy I've ever had to ask to not hit a blocker so hard," Thomas said. "One night, the other team was running a quarterback counter, and he was hitting the pull guy so hard the quarterback was just waiting for Dont'a to drive the blocker so far, that he'd run behind him. Once he stopped hitting the blocker so hard, he ended that play for them for the rest of the game." http://alabama.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1275941 Title: Re: Hightower strives to be the best Post by: Coach Hank Crisp on October 08, 2011, 08:34:25 AM That was sad his grandfather passed away before seeing Donta play for Alabama. :(
Title: Re: Hightower strives to be the best Post by: BAMAWV on October 08, 2011, 09:03:14 AM This is a very good story on Dont'a Hightower. It is mostly about his family and high school career. He is having a good year and looks like he is 100% recovered from his ACL injury. He is a special player and seems to have the respect of the Tide coaches and players. That is funny. I've heard stories (you know how that goes) where Coach Bryant and Co. asked Rich Wingo to back off a notch in practice. ???Quote In his only season as Hightower's coach, Thomas was taken aback not only by his ability, but his character as well. "When your star player is on task and on target, it's a lot easier to get everyone else to be on task and on target," Thomas said. "And Dont'a did everything we asked and more." As for his exploits on the field, those were of the sort Thomas hadn't seen before or since. Hightower was primarily a linebacker under Thomas, but was occasionally used to spark the offense. According to Thomas, he touched the ball 77 times as a senior - either as a rusher, receiver or return man - and scored 19 touchdowns on those 77 touches. But it was at linebacker where Thomas knew he had something even more special. "He's the only guy I've ever had to ask to not hit a blocker so hard," Thomas said. "One night, the other team was running a quarterback counter, and he was hitting the pull guy so hard the quarterback was just waiting for Dont'a to drive the blocker so far, that he'd run behind him. Once he stopped hitting the blocker so hard, he ended that play for them for the rest of the game." http://alabama.rivals.com/content.asp?CID=1275941 |